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SUBMITTER: Okada K
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6545094 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Okada Kensuke K Okada Yasukazu Y Dall Sasha R X SRX Hosken David J DJ
Proceedings. Biological sciences 20190529 1903
Winning or losing contests can impact subsequent competitive behaviour and the duration of these effects can be prolonged. While it is clear effects depend on social and developmental environments, the extent to which they are heritable, and hence evolvable, is less clear and remains untested. Furthermore, theory predicts that winner and loser effects should evolve independently of actual fighting ability, but again tests of this prediction are limited. Here we used artificial selection on repli ...[more]